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Boston Herald: Genzyme drug a miracle for 46 from New Hampshire“My husband watched two of his uncles die,” Renee Kuusisto, 36, tearfully told employees at Genzyme's new Framingham, Mass., plant. “When he was diagnosed, I thought: My husband's going to die before he's 41 (the average life expectancy for Fabry disease patients without treatment). Genzyme gave us hope.”

Killer caught in NH gets 88 years to lifeEarlier this month, a jury convicted Matthew Slocum of killing his mother, his step-father and his step-brother with a shotgun, setting their home on fire and fleeing to New Hampshire with his girlfriend and their child on the morning of July 13.

CreditUnionTimes.com: GFA FCU's Bank Buyout Grabs Industry InterestThe proposed buyout by GFA Federal Credit Union of a troubled New Hampshire savings bank continues to generate industry interest but with a pivotal question: Can the credit union and bank clear the legal hurdles with the NCUA, the Comptroller of the Currency and the FDIC.

CNBC: Warm Weather Is a Windfall for Frozen Treat Sellers The sound of tinny music coming from an ice cream truck is as sure a sign spring has sprung as robins and tulips. So when the temperatures began climbing to unseasonably high levels in New Hampshire in March, Sharon Sweeney sprang into action to get her Kona Ice trucks on the road.

Bloomberg: Obama Campus Fervor Losing to Apathy as Students Sour on 2012In 2008, students at Dartmouth College sported Obama bumper stickers on their laptops and advocated their support over the Internet, Dean Lacy, professor of government at the Hanover, New Hampshire-based school, said in a phone interview. "Every class I walked into, the students would be talking about the election," Lacy said. "This year I could barely get students to talk about the Republican primaries, even in a class on campaigns and elections."

USA Today: Another View: Individual mandate vs. 'do not treat'In the early- and mid-1990s, nine states passed "guaranteed issue" laws that required insurance companies to write policies on demand. Without a mandate that required all citizens to buy policies, though, premiums and deductibles soared, enrollment fell and many companies dropped coverage in those states. Vermont went from 33 insurance companies to two. In the first three years New Hampshire's law was in effect, the number of insurers writing individual policies in the state dropped from 12 to five, and they offered only high-deductible, catastrophic coverage. Premiums in New Jersey rose as much as 155% over four years.